US735315A - Car-fender. - Google Patents

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, No 735,315; PATBNTED AUG. ,4, 1903.

T. TERZANO.

GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8. 1903.

no MODEL.

WITNESSES Q INVENTM 2, 1- V www l A TTORNEVS PATENT Patented August 4, 1903.

OFFICE.

TEoDosIo TERZANO, or HoosIcK rants, NEW YORK.

CAR-FENDER;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 735,315, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed June 8, 1903. Serial No. 160,478. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern; n n

Be it known that I, TEODOSIOTERZANQ', a f citizen of the United States, residing at Hoosick Falls, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Fenders,of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved fender for tramway-cars whereby the serious and sometimes fatal accidents, occasioned by a person being struck by a car while in motion will be avoided, a further object being to provide a fender for tramwaycars which will prevent a person or party struck therebyfrom passing beneath the car; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed. in the following specification, of which the-accompanying drawings form apart, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which- Figure 1 is aside view of one truck of a car, provided with my improvement; Fig. 2, a plan view thereof, and Fig. 3 a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings forming part of this speci fication I have shown at a one of the trucks of a car and at a the front platform of a car, and in the practice of my invention Iprovide a fender or guard of the following construction.

Myimproved fender or guard consists of a bottom member I), preferably triangular in 40 general form and the base of which is directed backwardly and the apex forwardly, and

this bottom I) may consist of a frame of similar form, if desired, and, as shown in the drawings, the bottom 6 is provided'with upwardly-directed side members h to which are secured spring bow-pieces b and around the bottom portion of the fender or guard and secured thereto in any desired manner is an elastic tubular member b The spring bowpieces 6 decrease in dimensions from the rear portion of the fender or guard forwardly,

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' and the form of said fender or guard is thus made practically simi'larto one-half of a cone. Connected with the front of th'eplatform a is a'yoke-shaped member c,similar.in form to a clevis, and secured thereto is a springmetal strip b which forms a part of the fender proper and which extends downwardly and forwardly beneath the spring bow-pieces b and the front end of which is formed into a loop 19 and secured to the bottom I) of the fender or guard proper.

An upright member at is secured to the central rear portion of the bottom of the fender or guard, and to the member a and .at one sidethereof is a backwardly-directed arm e,

with which is loosely connected at f a link member g which passes loosely through the bottom portion of a hanger h, secured to the bottom of the platform a The front axle i of the truck a is provided with an eccentric j, on which is mounted an eccentric-band 3' and the eccentric-band j is provided with an arm 3' which is pivotally connected with the link member or atj and by means of this construction the movement of the car will give the fender or guard a lateral vswinging mo- (indicated by the dotted lines a: in Fig.2.) n Thefender or-guard may be supported at any desired distance above the track It, and

my invention is not limited to-the exact details of the form of the fender or guard and the construction thereof as herein shown and described norto the particular means herein shown and described for connecting the fender or guard with the platform of the car, as it will be apparent that various changes in and modifications of the details of this arrange- 1. A fender or guard for tramway-cars suspendedfrom and in front of the platform of the car and in operative connection with an eccentric mounted on one of the axles of the car whereby the fender or guard is given a lateral swinging motion, substantially as shown and described.

2. A fender or guard for a tramway-car supported in front of the car and adapted to be swung in a horizontal plane, an eccentric connected with an axle of the car and devices connected with said eccentric and with the fender or guard and adapted to give the latter a swinging sidewise movement, substantially as shown and described.

3. A fender or guard for a tramway-car consistin g of a bottom portion triangular in form, transversely-arranged spring bow members secured thereto, a central top member to which the spring bow members are secured and an elastic member passing around the bottom portion of the fender or guard, substantially as shown and described.

4:. A fender or guard fora tramway-car consisting of a bottom portion triangular in form, transversely-arranged spring bow members secured thereto, a central top member to which the spring bow members are secured and an elastic member passing around the bottom portion of the fender or guard, and means whereby the fender or guard is given a lateral swinging motion by the movement of the car, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 29th day of May, 1903.

TEODOSIO TERZANO.

Witnesses:

I HARRY DORR,

EURY OozEINoLA.

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